The News Review:
- Local musician is bewitched by love of music
- BILL MCGRAW Hundreds bid Stooges guitarist farewell
- Music biopics try to keep it real
- Concert promoter wants to revive local punk scene
- Iggy and the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton rallied punk generations
- Joaquin Phoenix falls off stage gets bad Vegas rap!
- Hearts in Exile: An Interview with H2D Founder Chuck Warner
Local musician is bewitched by love of music
Zanesville Times Recorder H
We’ll come up probably at 1722. I’m sure you will eventually get to us. If you type in Irish Punk Zanesville you might get it sooner. My point being that it is easier to get your music heard now but it is easier for everyone to get their music heard. How do you find new music?For me there is nothing like cracking open a CD. I do download music.
BILL MCGRAW Hundreds bid Stooges guitarist farewell
Detroit Free Press United States
“Rick Manore one of the organizers chuckled at the unrehearsed nature of the evening. It’s got to be loose” he said. While Asheton was not a household name he was highly influential in the world of rock and cofounded the legendary Stooges in 1967 in Ann Arbor with his brother Scott and Iggy Pop who did not appear on stage Saturday night. Led by the writhing nihilistic Iggy the Stooges became one of the most important bands to emerge from southeast Michigan. Unlike the hyperkinetic Iggy on stage Asheton remained relatively still when playing dressed like an average Joe. He never blew critics away with his virtuosity.
Music biopics try to keep it real
Los Angeles Times CA
In last year’s “Control” Sam Riley went so far into his performances as the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis that it’s difficult even for fans to tell them from the real thing. Shane West took similar risks playing Darby Crash the intense (and suicidal) singer for the L. punk band the Germs in Rodger Grossman’s film “What We Do Is Secret” now on DVD. Grossman explained recently that lip-syncing would have been impossible for West. “I felt that what Darby was doing wasn’t always singing” he said.
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Concert promoter wants to revive local punk scene
St. Louis Post-Dispatch United States
It’s an all-encompassing go-to for band profiles a concert calendar classified ads a forum and more. Mancuso will attempt to bring awareness to the website and local punk music with the Stlpunk. com Winter Show a concert at 5 p. Performing will be Blink-182 tribute band Blank-281 along with Hereafterthis Underwater Bear Bamf Left on Empire At the Wall and Hunter Gatherer.
Iggy and the Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton rallied punk generations
El Paso Times TX
I conceded that in a recent e-mail exchange. Yes I noted he was not the most technically gifted guitarist in the land but that was not as important when it came to the punk music archetypes he helped create as it was to play with feel just like the old blues masters jazz greats and rock ‘n’ roll’s forebears. This electronic discussion was prompted by the Jan. 6 death of the Iggy and the Stooges guitarist at age 60. He was found dead of an apparent heart attack on his couch in Ann Arbor Mich. where the fun and the fun house began in the late 1960s.
Joaquin Phoenix falls off stage gets bad Vegas rap!
Los Angeles Times CA
After all the years of reading scripts and reading lines this is my chance to do something straight from the heart and put it out there. ?When I was young I liked punk rock music but then I discovered rap. I love the storytelling aspect of hip-hop. ?Are there people out there who think I?m a joke? I?m sure there will be. Are there people who think it?s going to suck? Probably but I can?t worry about that. ?The only encouraging news is there’s nowhere to go from here but up right?h and Casey Affleck was there filming the whole thing for.
Hearts in Exile: An Interview with H2D Founder Chuck Warner
PopMatters IL
To the older disaffected non-punks (who’d spent the last year unable to interest anyone in their vision of music—or even find places to play) it was: “Hey if you put out your own record you don’t have to fit into anyone else’s musical pigeonhole. ” While to the students it meant: “Who cares if you’re not old enough to play in a pub—you can still make music and put out a record. Doesn’t matter if your hair’s wrong or you don’t have a leather jacket yet.